The Ninjas Move In
Ranma yawned as he stretched in his futon. He looked over and saw that his pop was still out cold and snoring like he always did. Ranma threw off the covers and headed out to do his morning stretches and forms. He honestly was looking forward to the end of all this madness, but he first had to pass his classes to graduate high school and then make a break for the town border, if not the country border.
After his morning workout and dressing in a red long sleeve Chinese shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, blue Kung Fu slacks and red Feiyeu shoes, Ranma found himself looking out over the wall of the Tendo residence and couldn't help but think about a certain pink haired girl. It was stupid, he had only just met her, but he couldn't get Sakura out of his head. She was pretty, but he'd seen plenty of pretty girls before, but there was something different about this girl.
Maybe it was because she wasn't some crazy stalker girl that tried to force herself on him or the fact that she wasn't yet another fiancé that his father had gotten him engaged to behind his back just for food. Also, that trick she did where she used that weird technique to heal his wounds, it was a sweet move and he wished he could have asked her about it. Oh well, maybe he'd get the chance later.
After finishing up some Karate and Long Fist katas, Ranma hurried inside to get some breakfast as his mother and Kasumi were just finishing up preparations for the morning meal. As usual, Soun and Genma were stumbling down the stairs, Nabiki sauntered in like she didn't have a care in the world, and Akane all but marched down as soon as she so much as got a look at Ranma.
"Morning." Ranma said to the others.
"Morning boy." Genma said.
"Morning son." Soun added.
"Hmph." Was all Akane said.
"Good morning everyone." Kasumi said with her usual smile.
"So, did everyone sleep well?" Nodoka asked. Ranma shrugged.
"Ok, I guess." He said.
"Hmph, I bet you were dreaming about those floozies of yours again." Akane said as she shoved food into her mouth. Ranma glared at his 'fiancé'.
"Why in the heck would you think that? What did I say to even imply that?" Ranma said in disbelief.
"Son, just apologize and..." Soun started to say before Ranma got up.
"Forget it, I'm going." Ranma said as he got up.
"But Ranma, your breakfast." Nodoka said to her son.
"I'll take it to go." Ranma said as he grabbed what he could and headed off to school.
"Now look what you all did. You drove poor Ranma away form a nice family breakfast." Nodoka said as her son left. Akane only huffed again.
"Good riddance. No offence auntie Nodoka, but ever since your son and husband showed up, everything's been nothing but one chaotic mess after another."
Nodoka pouted at her 'so called' future daughter in law. She shook her head as she went back to eating, all the while thinking that maybe her son was right about this woman being 'un-cute'. Kasumi shook her head at her youngest sister, at the rate she was going she was going to lose Ranma for good.
As for Ranma himself, he was munching on his breakfast as he passed by the familiar buildings on his way to Furikan High. As he kept walking, he turned to look at the place that once housed one of the few people in this crazy town that he could truly call a friend. The place where Dr. Tofu's clinic stood look just as it did the day he first arrived. He smiled as he thought back to the times he talked to that man and couldn't help but chuckle. Oh, how he missed that guy. How Kasumi ever let a nice man like that go he'll never know.
It was then that he noticed something. There were some moving trucks in front of it and some guys were taking things in. Ranma stopped and tilted his head in confusion.
'Someone took over the doc's old clinic?' He asked himself. As he jumped down from the fence he was walking on, he heard a familiar voice. He looked and saw a familiar pink-haired girl telling the moving men where to put the stuff.
"Sakura?" Ranma asked. Sakura perked up and turned to see the boy she had seen yesterday.
"Oh, Ranma!" She said with a smile. Ranma was then surprised when the girl hugged him, causing him to blush a little.
"Uh, hi. Say, what are you doing here?" Ranma asked, trying to hide his blush. Sakura giggled.
"Well, remember when I told you that me, my master and some of her other students where moving into the neighborhood and were training in the healing arts? Well, my master bought this place thinking that it would be a good place to get some experience."
Ranma could only whistle at that.
"Nice. Funny thing, this place used to belong to an old buddy of mine before he left to finish his studies in America." Ranma told the pink haired girl.
"Really? I had no idea." She said, genuinely shocked at the coincidence. Ranma chuckled.
"Yeah, hey! Maybe I can drop by sometime to see how you guys are doing? In all honesty, it be nice to go back inside the place again. Be something like old times, ya know?" He said with a smile. Sakura fought back a blush.
"Uh, yeah sure. I mean, if you want to. But you might need to have a something wrong with ya when we have actual patients." Sakura joked. Ranma chuckled.
"No problem then. Most of the guys who'll show up here are creeps that want to pick a fight with me so I'll have an excuse." He said, only half joking.
Before Sakura could ask if Ranma WAS joking, the voice of Ino broke up their conversation.
"Hey Sakura, which room in the back do you wa..." Ino was cut off when she got a look at Ranma. She couldn't fight back the erg to go into her usual flirtatious mode.
"Well hello, handsome." She said with a seductive smirk as she sauntered over to the now blushing pigtailed boy.
Ranma gulped as he saw how pretty and...bouncy the blond girl was. Sakura gripped her fist in annoyance and a slight bit of anger as Ino was once again proving her point of calling her a horny pig.
"Ummm...hi?" Ranma said in a bashful voice. Ino smirked evily as she skipped towards the blushing boy, making sure her breasts bounced enough to get his attention.
"Sakura. Why didn't you tell me we had a guest? And such a handsome one too." She said as she tried to lean closer to Ranma.
"Back off Ino-pig." Sakura said, forcing some distance between the horny blond and the pigtailed boy.
"Sorry Ranma, my friend Ino-pig here is the 'whore' of our home town." Sakura said.
"Hey!" Ino said in retaliation. "I am NOT a whore. I'm just a flirt."
She then got right back in Ranma's face.
"But I can be whatever a cutie like you wants me to be." She said, brushing her bust against Ranma's chest.
"Um...I just remembered, I got to get to school. Um...talk to ya after school Sakura." And with that, a blushing Ranma ran as fast as he could to get away from the sexy blond Ino before he lost control of his hormones.
"Way to go Ino-pig. Here I was having a nice conversation with a guy, and YOU just HAD to step in and scare him off by being as flirty as every other girl we've read about in his file." Sakura said as she popped Ino over the head.
"HEY! Well, at least I wasn't beating around the bush and was trying to get some info about our target." Ino retorted. Sakura scoffed.
"What info?" She asked not buying her words one bit. Ino just smirked.
"That he is definitely straight." That earned her another pop on the head.
"You really are a pervert." Sakura said.
"At least I know how to get a guy hot and bothered. Another minute and I would've had him eating out of the palm of my hand." Ino said, then smirked pervertedly. "Or off of my boobs."
Sakura playfully punched Ino in the arm and it started a whole mini play fight between them. As they started to go for each other's throats, they heard someone clear their throat.
"Are you two done playing around?"
They stopped and turned to look and saw Tsunade giving them a deadpanned look. Both girls giggled sheepishly and brushed each other off as they shook hands and tried to not to get on her bad side.
"Uh...sorry shishou." Sakura said.
"Uh, we were just getting some fresh air." Ino added in. Tsunade smiled and shook her head at the two of them.
"Oh, I'm sure." She said. "Well, if you're done, 'getting some fresh air', and talking about how one of you tried to seduce our target, maybe you two can get back in here and get back to helping fix up our new base of operations?"
The two girls nodded and marched back into the clinic. But as they did, Sakura noticed the lack of two people.
"Shishou, where are Kakashi-sensei and Anko-sensei?" She asked. Ino noticed what her friend asked and blinked in surprise.
"Hey yeah, where are they?" Ino asked. Tsunade sighed.
"Well, I figured that if we all lived in the same place it would draw too much attention, so they went off and got apartments in town."
"Ah, I see." Sakura said.
"That makes sense." Ino added with a nod.
"So, does that mean that those two got jobs too?" Sakura asked. Tsunade nodded.
"Yeah, Kakashi actually got a job at..."
Back with Ranma, our young hero was trying his hardest to fight away the rise of hormones that Sakura's friend Ino caused. He was used to pretty girls hitting on him, but NOT ones with that kind of sex appeal.
'She had boobs that would put even my female form to shame. And she had a nice...SNAP OUT OF IT RANMA! So Sakura and her hot friend have nice racks and equally sexy asses! There is no way I'm getting involved with MORE women! Heck, if they knew HALF of what I have to go through...they'd move away and change their names.' Ranma thought to himself.
He sighed. Even if he wanted to get involved with gorgeous girls like those two, and BOY did he really want to...it would never happen. The fiancés would scare them off and he'd be broken hearted. If he were even capable of that.
He sighed again and steeled himself for his first day of his senior year of school. He was happy that he at least didn't have to deal with Kuno anymore, or Nabiki. They were some random college's problem now. But then he saw another problem to deal with. One he once thought was his cute friend.
"Hey Ran-chan!" Came the voice of one Kuonji Ukyo.
Ranma glared at his former childhood friend. Ukyo's happy face turned to fear at the stare Ranma gave her. She was hoping that staying away from him would cool him off enough for her to swoop in and try to win him over. BOY was she wrong on that. If anything, Ranma was even madder at her than when she crashed the wedding with the other crazy people of Nerima.
"Still mad?" She asked.
"Go to Hell." Was all Ranma said as he marched into the school, but not before kicking Principle Kuno in the head as he tried to cut Ranma's pigtail off again.
"You too." He said as he walked off, hands in his pockets. Kuno senior dropped to the floor as Ukyo sighed in sadness.
"Move it slutty cook!" Akane all but screamed as she shoved Ukyo out of the way. Ukyo glared at the chronically angry girl.
"At least I stopped him form marrying you, bitch." She said as she headed to class.
Ranma sat in his seat and crossed his legs on top of his desk. He sighed and looked out his window. He looked out at the city that he hated so much. He couldn't wait to leave this Hellhole once he graduated.
"Thinking about your sluts again?" Akane said as she sat down in a huff. Ranma didn't even acknowledge her.
"Hey Ranma! Did you hear?" One of Ranma's only friends, Daisuke, asked as he put a hand on Ranma's shoulder.
"No, hear what?" Ranma asked as he turned to his friend.
"We've got some new teachers this year!" Daisuke said excitedly. Ranma just gave him an unimpressed look.
"And?" He asked.
"Oh, come on man!" Hiroshi, his other friend said. "What if it's a hot babe!?"
Ranma looked at Hiroshi like he'd lost his mind.
"And you REALLY think that I'm interested in another hot woman?" Ranma asked him. Hiroshi and Daisuke both looked at each other and smiled sheepishly as they realized that Ranma had a point. Hot women were not his favorite thing in the world with all his fiancé problems.
"TECH! I bet you'd try and seduce her and add her your god damned harem." Akane said. Ukyo looked at the girl and shook her head.
"Seriously, who hurt you?" She asked. Ranma made like his hand was a phone and stuck it in her face.
"It's the pot, kettle. It wants to say that the both of you are black as Satan's asshole." Ranma said.
Before Ukyo could say anything else, the bell rang, signaling the students to take their seats. And they waited. And waited. And waited. It took almost a half an hour before the door FINALLY opened and in came a man that none of the had seen before.
He was a young looking man, from what they could see. He had gravity defying silver gray hair, a black wrap around his left eye, and a face mask over his mouth to hide the bottom of his face. He was clothes consisted of a white button up shirt, black slacks and black shoes. He looked at the students.
"Well, hello kids." He said, giving them what looked like a smile with his one closed visual eye.
"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!? WE'VE BEEN WAITING A HALF HOUR!" Akane screamed. Kakashi just ignored her.
"Well, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Hatake Kakashi, your new homeroom teacher. And my first opinion of you all is...You all suck and I don't like any of you."
At his words, the whole class face faulted.
"Man, talk about blunt and harsh dude." Ranma said as he got back up. Kakashi just chuckled.
"Well anyway, first impressions are always subject to change. So, let's get things started and maybe my opinion of you will improve."
As the day went on, Ranma couldn't help but keep an eye on this cyclops. He wasn't sure why, but there was something about the guy that put him on edge. He watched him every chance he got and noticed that the guy moved like he was always on guard. Ranma knew a little something about that himself.
He wasn't sure, but he was almost positive that this guy was a martial artist of some sort. He couldn't say for sure what style, but he could sense a small amount of power from this guy. It was clear he was holding his power back, but he wasn't sure just how much he was holding back.
Ever since the battle with Saffron and the failed wedding, more and more strange fighters had been coming to Nerima to challenge Ranma to fights and he was getting sick of it. It had been quiet for a while, but that was what made the pigtailed boy even MORE nervous. If his 18 years of life had taught him anything, it was that around him, the more quiet it gets, the more VICIOUS the storm later. And he was sure he was just about due.
Thinking of strange martial artists actually got him thinking about Sakura again. She was the prettiest girl he'd ever seen and she was nice too. And her smile, her pink hair, green eyes...Ranma mentally slapped himself.
'What am I thinking!? Girls are NOTHING but TROUBLE! Who needs them!? I don't. But still...I wouldn't mind talking to Sakura again. And I hate to admit this, but I wouldn't mind seeing her hot and sexy blond friend too.'
Ranma shook his head. He was warned that holding back his hormones for too long would cause them to bubble up and burst forth eventually. He really hated that his little pain in the neck 'Grand Master' Happosai was actually right about something for once.
Akane glared at Ranma from her seat. She didn't know why, but the look on his face made her scream in rage. She was SURE he was thinking about some stupid sluts he knew. She hated him so much, but she was losing what little hold on him she had.
Ranma spent most of his days away from the house, he didn't say where he went, he dodged every question they asked him, and even his mother was starting to not really like her as much as she used to. And what's worse, Ranma was getting better.
Every time she tried to take out her anger on him like she usually did, he dodged and threw her across the dang house! He blocked her punches and kicks, countered her surprise attacks, and to top it off, sometimes she would get knocked out by him when she attacked him.
Ranma was even able to shut the fathers and even Nabiki up with just the flash of his aura. She wasn't sure, but she was sure SOMEONE was training him. She was sure it was Cologne so he could spend time with Shampoo, he was pervy enough to do that, but Nodoka and Kasumi kept telling her that if that was the case, he would have gone back to China with them by now.
Not only that, but Ukyo, Shampoo and even Kodachi kept coming by when he was gone, asking about his whereabouts. Even Nabiki couldn't find out where he went off too. She didn't buy it. He HAD to be sleeping around with Shampoo it was the ONLY explanation.
As she was thinking this, Akane didn't even notice that her aura was slipping out like CRAZY! Ranma could ignore it, but most others were being scared out of their minds! Some were even begging for Miss Hinako to show up and suck up her battle aura and get this maniac under control. Even Ukyo was shaking in her shoes, starting to regret ever coming to Nerima and getting mixed up with Ranma and his craziness.
The only other person NOT being scared to death by Akane's aura of anger was Kakashi. And that in of itself made Ranma even MORE suspicious of the man. Was he some new assassin that principle Kuno hired to take him down? Was he some enemy that had heard of him and wanted to destroy him for one reason or another? Was he someone that his pop screwed over and now he wanted payback?
Too many theories were circling through his head and he didn't have any clues to support any one of them. As this was going through Ranma's head, Kakashi was having his own internal thoughts.
For starters, he was wondering just how Ranma lived with someone so violent and angry all the time? He sighed, then he realized the state of his class and the suspicious look Ranma was giving him.
'Looking too good Kakashi. But if I start acting scared and shaky now, he'll definitely be onto me. Oh well. I wonder just what Ranma is thinking about me?'
Just as the bell for P.E. class was about to ring, the window shattered and in flew a blur that Kakashi knew all too well.
'Oh no...' He thought to himself.
"HELLO MAGGOTS!" Came a feminine voice. From the window came a figure that made all the boys save Ranma have an epic nosebleed and the girls to all have expressions that ranged form shock to anger to 'You've got to be kidding me'.
She was of average height, had purple hair in a high ponytail, brown eyes, an attractive face with a devious grin and a body that was very curvaceous. Her clothes were nothing more that the white shirt and navy bloomers of a P.E. uniform. And to make things worse, it was easy to tell that she wore NO BRA under that white shirt.
"Alright brats, listen up! Just cause you're seniors doesn't mean you can lounge around and act old. So get this, I'm Mitarashi Anko, your new P.E. teacher and as long as I'm around, you brats are gonna work and sweat! And before any of you pervy boys ask...yes. I'm single. And no, none of you are my type." Said the undercover ninja. Kakashi face palmed, not believing that Anko was still acting like she usually did.
"Alright, everybody down to the field and get ready to work! Oh, and if you ain't down on that field in about 7 minutes, everyone late will be running 5 laps!" Anko said with her usual devilish grin.
Her words got all the students save Ranma running for the changing room. Anko noticed that Ranma wasn't running and scratched the back of her head.
"What's wrong kid? Do you actually want to run laps?" Anko asked. Ranma stretched and in a flash, did a quick change and was dressed in a white short sleeved Chinese shirt and blue Kung Fu slacks.
"No. I just don't need to run like they do." Was all he said before he jumped out the window and flipped into a perfect landing on the ground below. Anko whistled at Ranma's display.
"Dang. He's not half bad." Anko said. Kakashi nodded.
"Yeah, he's tough. And that quick change move was something a trained magician or ninja would be proud of." Kakashi then looked at Anko and narrowed his eye.
"By the way, why did you show up like that?" Kakashi asked. Anko scoffed.
"Hey, I'm free to dress anyway I like. And besides, is it really wrong to try out this gym uniform fetish?" She asked striking a pose. Kakshi sighed.
"Well, just remember not to draw too much attention to us, ok? I think he's already suspicious of me, and your antics will only draw more unwanted attention." He said to his coworker. Anko sighed at the silver haired man.
"Yeah yeah, I got ya." She said as she jumped out the window after Ranma. Kakashi shook his head.
As for Ranma, gym class was uneventful, at least by his usual standards. He watched Anko carefully, his guard up as he could tell she was not a normal woman. Of course, Akane and Ukyo both thought that he was looking at her boobs. Of course, he did take a look once or twice, but it wasn't the thing he was focused on.
She was a fighter, he could see it in the way she moved. She looked like she was just itching for a fight, and Ranma was almost sure that she wanted to take him on. Some would say he was being arrogant, but so many people wanted a piece of him that it was his first thought whenever a new potential fighter showed up.
"Stop staring at her tits you perv!" Akane screamed for the 5 millionth time.
"I'm so tired of saying that I'm to that I'm not even going to bother." Ranma said as he did some fancy acrobatics on the pull up bar.
"Akane..." Ukyo started.
"Save it slut! I know you'd take his side if he were charged with murder. I'm not listening to you or anybody else who stands up for this cheating asshole." Akane screamed at the other girl.
Ukyo half expected Ranma to stand up for her, but as she looked to him, he was perching himself on the bar looking out into the distance. She sighed, she should have expected that. Ranma hated her. And the worst part of it all, she didn't' blame him, at the moment, she hated herself too.
"Say, pigtail!" Anko called over to Ranma. Ranma looked down at his new P.E. teacher.
"Yeah?" He answered.
"I hear you're quite the fighter, care to prove it with a little sparring match?" Anko asked with her usual grin. Ranma actually returned it with a grin of his own.
"Sure, why not? I'm bored out of my mind anyway." Ranma said as he flipped down.
Ranma and Anko circled each other as they prepared to fight. Ranma wasn't sure what this woman could do, but she was making no attempt to hide her own excitement of this fight. Akane was fuming, hoping Ranma would get beaten up for ignoring her for some busty bitch.
Anko made the first move and struck at Ranma with a couple of snake fist strikes. Ranma was slightly surprised, he hadn't seen anyone use Snake Fist Kung Fu in a long time. He cracked a grin as he bobbed away from her strikes and struck out with a snap kick and then followed up with a lunge punch and right cross.
Anko snaked her way around Ranma's strikes and blocked his follow up side elbow strike. Anko tried to sweep Ranma's feet out from under him, but Ranma avoided it and struck the Snake Fist user with a power punch to the solar plexus, sending her back a bit. Anko lost the air from her lungs and caught by Ranma's side kick to her torso.
Anko rolled on the ground and back to her feet and dodged Ranma's spinning back kick and did a low spinning sweep kick that took him down. Ranma rolled away as Anko tried to spear him with her hands and was caught off guard when spun into a Capoeira round house kick that nailed her in the head.
Anko rolled and eeped as Ranma did a tornado kick and a spinning hook kick, but she managed to dodge them and retaliate. She nailed him in the side and did an upwards elbow to his chin and chop to the side of the head. Ranma reared from the strike and blocked her next strike and pulled her into a hammer fist strike to ribs and then used an armbar to try and take her to the ground.
Anko turned to her other side as she was taken down and struck with a high round house to the to his chest, forcing him back. Ranma grunted form the blow and cartwheeled away form Anko's crouching wheel kick. Anko came at him again with more snake hand strikes but Ranma was avoiding them with more ease now.
This girl was good, but now he had a feeling for how she fought. Ranma waited till she got close and did a backhand spring that caught Anko on the chin. As she reeled back, Ranma jumped at her and pulled off a Liu Kang style bicycle kick that sent Anko flying backwards.
She shook her head as she tried to get back up, but 'yiped' as Ranma came down on her with a front flip that would have caused him to land on her sternum if she hadn't rolled aside. Ranma lashed out with more kicks to keep the retreating kunoichi at bay and with an ariel spinning heel kick that nailed her in the head.
Ranma went after her again and unloaded a barrage of rapid punches that sent Anko down to the ground, ending the fight. Ranma looked at the downed purple haired woman and sighed, a genuine smile on his face.
"Thanks for the fight." He said in between pants. "Same time tomorrow?"
Anko rubbed her sore...everything and sighed as she accepted the hand that Ranma offered her.
"Maybe not tomorrow. How about Friday?" She said as he helped her up.
"Sure. Whenever you want, I'm ready. Oh, and next time, don't hold back." He said as the bell to signal the end of class rang and he headed off inside along with everyone else.
Anko was shocked. He knew she was holding back? And she had to say, it was hard for her to hold back. This kid was good. Scary good. In terms of taijutsu, he was probably as good as Guy and his student Lee. She had to fight the erg to use her ninjutsu in this fight. She sighed as she rubbed her side. She was wondering just how good he was when HE wasn't holding back. She would have to have a talk with Kakashi once school let out.
School finally let out and Ranma couldn't be happier! The fight with Anko was the highlight of the day and he really want to get away and probably get in some training of the techniques Domon had taught him. He sighed as he heard Akane trying to accuse him of something again. He ignored her and headed off to who knows where.
Truth be told, as anti-social as he acted, Ranma hated being alone. But every time he went out to hang with his only two friends, something happened to ruin their good time. And somehow, HE always got blamed for it. He sighed, just another day in the life for one Saotome Ranma. No one was on his side except for his mentor, his wife, who Ranma had only met twice and she treated him like he was either her kid brother or a surrogate son, and his mother.
Ranma hated how few people he had backing him up. His mind went back to Sakura and her friend Ino. He shook his head, even if he wanted to try a relationship with them, it was doomed to fail. As soon as they were exposed to the madness of his life, they'd leave him alone and never speak to him again.
He knew from experience. After all, he did TRY to ask a girl out once, and he did his best to keep it a secret, but the fiancés and rivals found out anyway. That girl never came near him since. He sighed as he fought back a tear.
No use crying about it now. Ranma was about to think of where to go next, but then he realized that he was further downtown than he thought. He laughed at himself and was about to turn around and noticed that he wasn't alone.
Across the street, there was a very pretty girl he'd never seen before. She was around his age or a year older, long blue-black hair, and the strangest eyes he'd ever seen. They were completely white. She also was wearing a sleeveless top that clung to her large breasts and form fitting shorts, long dark stockings and flat shoes. Ranma couldn't help but blush at seeing her.
She looked lost and was clutching a bag to her chest. Ranma tilted his head as he looked at the confused looking girl. Shrugging, he jumped down from the fence he was walking on and flipped over to the girl.
"Hey." He said as he landed next to her.
"EEP!" She exclaimed, turning to the pigtailed boy who showed up next to her out of nowhere.
"Sorry, didn't mean to spook ya." Ranma said with sincere smile. Hinata tried to recompose herself, seeing that the person in front of her was at least seemingly not a threat. That is, until see saw that it was the very person she and the others were here to spy on.
"Oh, uh...hello." She said, trying not to let herself slip up. But now that she got a good look at the pigtailed boy, she could see why so many women constantly fought over him.
"You ok? You seemed lost." Ranma said, tilting his head at the blushing girl.
"Wha!? Um, well, kind of." She admitted, turning away from Ranma's gaze.
"You see, me and my friends and mentor just moved into this neighborhood, and I left to get some supplies and..."
"Ya got lost, right?" Ranma said with a smile. Hinata nodded.
"Y-yeah." She said, looking down.
"Well don't look so glum chum." Ranma said. "I know my way around the neighborhood, I can help ya get back. Where ya staying at?"
"We-well...We just moved into this old clinic that a doctor who used to live here used." She said, catching Ranma off guard.
"Say, you wouldn't happen to know a blond girl named Ino and a pink haired girl named Sakura, would you?" Ranma asked. Hinata acted surprised, not wanting him to know that she already knew he knew her two friends.
"Yes. How do you know Sakura-san and Ino-san?" She asked. Ranma smiled.
"I met Sakura yesterday and Ino today while I was passing by the old clinic. Come on, I'll help ya on your way." Ranma said. Hinata blushed for real. This nice gut couldn't be the dangerous man they were told about, could he?
"Well...arigato Ranma-san." She said, giving Ranma a smile that made his heart skip a beat.
"Alright then. Shall we?" He said with a wave of his hand. Hinata smiled again and bowed politly.
"Hai."
And with that, the two teens started on their way to the clinic. Ranma couldn't help but steal a few glances at Hinata as they walked. She was cute, seemed sweet, and her boobs bounced with each step. Ranma crushed his eyes closed and shook his head to get rid of those pervy thoughts. Sure she was cute and beautiful and busty but that was NO reason to think that about a woman he literally just met.
"So, uh...are you a medical student like Sakura?" Ranma asked. Hinata nodded.
"Hai. But to be honest, I'm not as talented as Sakura-san. I'm more suited to being a nurse, but she's got all the talent to be a great doctor. Our mentor even says that she may surpass her one day." Hinata said, a bit of pride in her voice for her friend. Ranma smiled and nodded.
"I bet. She healed me up in seconds. I don't even have a scar." Ranma said.
"Huh?" Hinata asked, still not letting Ranma know that she was there when he and Sakura met. Ranma blushed and scratched his head.
"Oh right. Well, when I bumped into Sakura yesterday, I got some mean gashes from a fight with a rival of mine. She saw them and healed them up like magic. Whoever this mentor of yours is, she taught Sakura well." He said. Hinata smiled and nodded, glad to know that Sakura already made a good first impression on this young man.
"By the way," Ranma added. "That friend of yours, Ino...is she...well..." Ranma struggled to find the right words.
"She is a bit much isn't she?" Hinata finished for him.
"Yeah, let's go with that." He said.
"Actually, I was going to say, is she man crazy or something?" He asked. Hinata sighed.
"Yes, actually. She's the one of us who likes to go after any handsome guy she sees." She said.
"Is she even really studying medicine like you girls?" He asked.
"Actually," Hinata started. "Ino is studying psychology."
"Psychology?" Ranma asked. But before Hinata could explain further...
"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE PERVERTED FREAK!"
The two teens turned their heads and saw a PAINFULLY familiar little gnome being chased by a very pretty pink haired banshee.
"Is that Sakura-san?" Hinata asked.
"Oh NO!" Ranma said as he slapped his face in frustration. "Happosai!"
"Happosai? You mean that little person Sakura-san is chasing?" Hinata asked.
"NO." Ranma said, hellfire in his eyes. "The little bastard I'm going to help her kill."
And with that, Ranma dashed forward in the blink of an eye and kicked Happosai like a soccer ball back towards Sakura who smashed him to the ground with a super hard punch that smashed him into the ground hard enough to leave a crater. Ranma couldn't help but go wide eyed at Sakura's show of strength.
'Dang. She might be as strong as Ryoga. Heck, maybe stronger.' Ranma thought to himself. Sakura huffed and puffed at the little perverted midget on the ground.
"AND STAY DOWN YOU LITTLE SHIT!" She screamed at Happosai as she regained her composer. She then looked up and saw Ranma whistling at her show of power.
"Oh! Uh, Ranma! Hi!" She said as she scratched the back of her head, blushing at the fact that Ranma saw her 'angry side'.
"So, should I call you Super Girl or Wonder Woman?" He asked. Sakura giggled as she blushed even further.
"Sorry. I tend to get fiery when I'm mad." She said. Ranma shook his head.
"Don't worry. I've seen way scarier. And to be fair," He paused and turned to spit at the old pervert in the crater. "This bastard deserved it."
"You know this creep?" Sakura asked.
"That's what I asked him." Hinata said as she ran up to the two.
"Hinata! There you are! I was worried about you, you've been gone for so long." Sakura said as she smiled at her busty friend.
"Yeah, I found her wandering around lost and I was escorting her back to the clinic when I saw you chasing this bastard." Ranma said as he turned to look at the pervert...only to find him gone!
"HEY! Where'd he go!?" Ranma said in a panic as he looked around. All three looked around for the mini pervert until...
"AAAHHHHH!" Sakura screamed as said pervert was motorboating her sizable butt.
"WAHOO! WHAT A BOOTY!" Happosai said.
"HEY! G-GET OUT OF THERE YOU PERV!" Sakura said as she pried the disgusting pervert off her butt and threw him with all her might. But Happosai flipped in the air and landed like it was nothing.
"Ah! That was just..."
"YOU DISGUSTING FREAK!" Ranma shouted as he nailed the mini freak with a powerful low round house kick.
"Hey! What's the big idea!?" Happosai said as Ranma appeared in front of him and tried to pound him to a pulp.
"Ranma! Why is it that you always interfere with my hobby?" Happosai said as he and Ranma clashed in the air.
"Hobby!?" Ranma said as he did a barrage of rapid kicks that forced Happosai on the defensive as they separated and landed on the ground.
"You call molesting innocent girls, stealing their underwear, and giving not just our neighborhood but our martial art style a bad name!? How can you be proud of yourself!? You're nothing but a pervy, horny old man with NO ONE to love him because of the way you act! And the only times you HAD a chance at actually getting a girl, you chose being a freaking PERV over them! You're nothing, NOTHING but a little bastard who doesn't have ANY right to live!" Ranma shouted, his bottled-up anger at the old man finally coming forth in a fiery crimson aura.
Sakura and Hinata paled and gulped at the sight before them. For the first time, they were starting to see why the government was so worried about Ranma. Happosai however, wasn't worried in the least. He was used to Ranma's outbursts and while this time his aura did feel more powerful, he wasn't worried. He dealt with this all the time, this time wouldn't be any different.
"Ranma, have you no respect for your grandmaster?" Happosai said. Ranma's next outburst is what finally woke the old pervert up.
"YOU ARE NOT MY MASTER!" Ranma's outburst let loose a blast of energy that almost knocked Happosai and the girls down with the force of Ranma's shout that might as well been a super charged kiai.
"You may have created the Musabetsu Kakuto Ryu, but all you've ever used it for is to spy on and harass girls. You never cared about anyone but yourself! Everything I've learned since coming to this Hellhole town I learned from rivals and enemies and NEVER FROM YOU! In my eyes, you are NOTHING TO ME!" And with that, Ranma charged at Happosai with an intent to either maim or kill.
Happosai jumped at the charging pigtailed boy and they clashed, causing a shockwave to blast from their collision.
"Alright then." Happosai said. "In that case, I'll just have to remind you who's the master around here."
And with that, Ranma and Happosai engaged in a fight that, to Ranma, had been put off for FAR too long. But before he could make a move, a familiar voice rang out as the sound of a bicycle could be heard.
"Nihoa Airen!" Shouted Shampoo as she tried to leap at Ranma...only to end up with a left foot crashing into her gut, curtsey of Ranma.
"But out you stupid slut!" Ranma shouted as Shampoo landed hard on the ground and rubbed her stomach.
"Airen..." She started to say.
"Don't CALL ME THAT!" Ranma shouted. "I am NOT, repeat NOT YOUR DAMN HUSBAND! I don't like you Shampoo! I've never liked you and by God I wish you'd go back to China and leave me alone! I! HATE! YOU!"
Sakura and Hinata both flinched at Ranma's outburst. Up until now, they had both seen him as a generally happy go lucky kind of guy. But NOW they were seeing the other side of the pigtailed boy. The side that made the government so worried that he might turn on his own country. But to their continued surprise, the angry man's words seemed to fall on death ears and the meaning of that last, violent kick, was apparently forgotten by the girl that was the current object of Ranma's ire.
"Airen!" Shampoo said as she got back to her feet. "Why you still playing hard to get? You already beat Shampoo in battle plenty time before, and other girls are no no good for you. Why not just marry Shampoo and be done with it?"
"Are you death or just stupid!?" To everyone's surprise, that last exclamation didn't come from Ranma but from the pink haired girl that was harassed by Happosai.
"The man just shouted for the whole district to hear that he doesn't like you. Not only that, but he just kicked you hard enough to knock the air out of you. I think he's made his feelings clear lady." Sakura said, starting to understand why Ranma was said to be angry a lot of the time.
Shampoo finally took notice of the two new people who were at the party and looked confused. But then her eyes narrowed as she glared at whom she could only assume, were two NEW rivals for her Ranma's heart.
"Who is you, pink lady? You another girl who came to take Shampoo's intended?" She said.
"WHA!?" Sakura said in shock.
"Leave the two of them alone! They have NOTHING to do with this!" Ranma shouted at the Amazon.
"OOOOHHH HO HO HO HO!" Ranma and everyone else stiffened as the laugh of Kuno Kodachi broke through the tenson.
"Oh Ranma-darling, why are you still messing with harrlets like these when.." She was cut off when Ranma tried to take her head off with an ariel round house kick.
"Yipe!" Kodachi said as she barely avoided losing her head.
"Can I NOT GET A BREAK!?" Ranma shouted. "Can't any of you idiots just leave me alone!? I hate you as much as I hate that stupid Amazon! Leave me alone Kodachi!" He shouted. Kodachi just laughed her annoying laugh.
"Oh Ranma Sweetums! I never back down from attempting to..."
"HEY!" Now it was Sakura's turn to be surprised. Cause this time, sweet, quiet Hinata was the one to shout at the newest party crasher.
"Leave. Him. Alone! He just said that he didn't like you harassing him! Just leave him alone!" She shouted as the veins around her eyes started to bulge, which seemed weird to the natives of Nerima, but showed Sakura that her friend had activated her Byakugan.
"Humph!" Kodachi said in a huff. "Yet another woman trying to stand in the way of my love? Well, I STRIKE HARRLET!"
"Kodachi leave her alone!" Ranma shouted at the crazy woman who leapt at Hinata.
But it was Kodachi who was in for a surprise as Hinata struck Kodachi HARD in the gut with a Gentle Fist palm strike. Kodachi lost her breath as she was launched backwards from the force of the strike. Ranma and the others, except Sakura, gaped in shock at what they just saw. Ranma whistled and Sakura just shook her head and smiled slightly.
"Bad move lady. Hinata may be shy and quiet, but she's a dangerous hand-to-hand fighter when she gets mad." Sakura said.
"Well dang." Was all Ranma said. Shampoo on the other hand, was just growling.
"Well Shampoo not scared of blind eyed girl. If you get in way, then Shampoo show you why you no get in Amazon's way." The purple haired girl said as she charged at Hinata, but was cut off...
"CHYYAA!" Cried Sakura as she struck out with a powerful round house kick that made Shampoo 'yipe' and duck under or else she'd lose her head.
"Hey! Did you forget about me, little miss hare product?" Sakura said as she put on a pair of fingerless gloves and cracked her knuckles.
"I may not be from around here, but if there's one thing I can't stand it's an unfair fight." She got into her own stance. "So, if you want a fight, then come at me and I'll give you a lesson in pain."
"Sakura!" Ranma started to say but was cut off by Hinata.
"Ranma-kun! Behind you!" Ranma turned just in time to dodge Happosai's leaping kick.
"Keep your eyes on the prize boy!" Happosai said as he used his momentum to lunge right for Hinata's large breasts. Hinata got into a stance and struck Happosai so fast that he didn't notice and was hit again by Ranma's front flip kick.
"Nice move Hinata!" Ranma said with a smile and giving her a thumbs up. Hinata blushed.
"HEY!" Came an angry voice. "No one gets complements from my Ranma but me!"
Kodachi said as she charged at Hinata again, only to be repelled by Hinata's defensive technique.
"He doesn't like you! He said so himself." Hinata said as she struck Kodachi in the cheek and then the gut. Ranma came up behind the rat-tail haired girl and did a low spinning sweep kick to knock her to the ground.
"Forget it Hinata, with these two, words go in one ear and out the other." He said. And then he turned just in time to strike at a returning Happosai who blocked his attack.
"And he's another." He said as Happosai leapt away.
"Ranma, I'm getting tired of you interrupting my hobby." Happosai said.
"And I'm sick and tired of you." Ranma said. Ranma and Hinata got back-to-back as Sakura back flipped to meet up with them.
"Looks like this is about to be a three-on-three fight." Sakura said with a smile. Ranma really didn't want these two to get involved in his mess, but it looked like these two could handle Shampoo and Kodachi. That just left Happosai, and he had a few new tricks to use on the old geezer.
"Alright. But be careful. These two are known for fight dirty and unfair." He said. Sakura and Hinata nodded as they faced their own opponents.
"RIGHT!" They both said as Ranma ran to meet Happosai dead on.
Kodachi laughed like a lunatic as she lashed out with her ribbon like a whip. Hinata narrowed her eyes at the crazy gymnast and poured Chakra into her hands as she weaved them around herself.
"Shugohakke Rokujūyon Shō!" Hinata shouted as she weaved a defensive net that repelled Kodachi's ribbon assault.
"What!?" Kodachi cried as she was soon to be back on the defensive as Hinata charged at her and struck with quick and precise palm strikes at the psycho gymnast.
"That bitch is no match for Hinata. Now that just leaves you and me, little miss Queen of the Amazons." Sakura said as she and Shampoo sized each other up.
"Shampoo make quick work of you. HOME WRECKER!" Shampoo shouted as she stuck out at the smirking Sakura.
Shampoo lashed out with a kick only for Sakura to bring her elbow and knee together to block the kick and lash out with backfist to her face. Shampoo stumbled from the strike and back peddled as Sakura came at her with a quick series of jabs and cross punches like a trained boxer.
"Don't count me out just cuz I'm cute and dainty looking." Sakura said as she parried one of Shampoo's chops and her follow up overhead punch struck out with a front kick to the stomach.
"And I'm no HOMEWRECKER!" She shouted as her fist started to glow blue as she came at Shampoo with a punch that promised a WORLD of pain.
"Oukashou!" She shouted as she came with the intent to smash her fist into Shampoo's face, only to miss. But it didn't matter, cause as her fist hit the ground, a HUGE crater formed and shards of earth spiked out and forced Shampoo to leap away in fear of being caught in the backlash of the attack.
Ranma and Happosai looked at the fight between the girls and their eyes went wide and their mouths dropped.
"Whoa..." Was all Ranma could say. But as for his thoughts...
'And I thought Akane's and Ryoga's punches were dangerous.'
Back with Shampoo, the Amazon was going pale at what she just saw. But she didn't have time to think about it as Sakura rushed at her again. Shampoo dodged the pink haired beauties punches and kicks with fear on her face. If one punch did that, she didn't want to take too many of those strikes.
Sakura managed to land a spinning hook kick to Shampoo's head and sent her flying. Sakura charged after her, not wanting to take any chances that the Amazon might recover and try a counter attack. Shampoo shook her head as Sakura came at her with a jumping axe kick.
"Tsutenkyaku!" Sakura shouted as she brought her foot down. Shampoo managed to avoid the kick and saw the huge crater that it formed from the impact, causing her to go open mouthed in shock.
"What are you? Monster!?" She shouted in freight. Sakura growled at the purple haired girl.
"Who are you calling a monster, you stupid bitch!" She shouted as she leapt from the crater and attacked the purple haired girl.
Shampoo dodged Sakura's haymaker and struck with three elbow strikes to the pink haired girls' stomach and sweeped her to the ground. Sakura grunted but then lashed out with a kick to push Shampoo back as she cartwheeled into another kick.
Shampoo spun to avoid it and lashed out with kicks, chops and whipping arm strikes meant to knock Sakura out. Sakura blocked, dodged and parried as best she could, but she was finding that while she was stronger than this girl and probably more skilled, she was a faster opponent. Sakura had to find a way to end this and fast or else this Amazon might just overwhelm her with pure speed.
As for Hinata, she was having an easier time dealing with Kodachi. Kodachi channeled ki into her ribbon to turn it into a bladed whip to try and slice the white eyed girl, but Hianta's strange fighting style and techniques kept her attacks at bay and as soon as Hinata was close enough, she struck out with powerful palm strikes.
Kodachi couldn't understand what was happening. It was like this woman could see all around her and this fighting style she was using was tailer made to capitalize on this fact. She pulled out a bladed hoop and threw it at the blue haired girl.
Hinata managed to redirect the hoop and then spun on the ground as Kodachi came in for another close-range attack with her weighted club.
"Kaiten!" She shouted and spun, creating a spiraling sphere of energy that repelled Kodachi's attack.
"HUH!?" The black-haired girl shouted as Hinata charged in and slammed a double palm strike that sent Kodachi flying straight out of the fight.
Back with Sakura and Shampoo, Sakura saw her chance and grabbed Shampoo's leg as she went for a spinning hook kick and sweeped her to the ground as she went for an ankle lock.
"AHH!" Shampoo screamed as she kicked herself free. Sakura glared at her purple foe and waited for another chance to finish this fight.
"Give up yet?" She goaded, with a smirk. Shampoo growled at the girl who looked as if she hadn't broken a sweat.
"Amazon warrior never give up, homewrecker!" She screamed as she came at Sakura with a ariel spin kick. Sakura ducked and as soon as Shampoo passed her and turned to face the pink haired ninja, she wished she hadn't.
"GOT CHA!" Sakura shouted as she punched forward.
"Oukashou!" She shouted as her fist glowed bright blue and slammed into Shampoo's gut.
Shampoo coughed as she was sent flying over a mile away, curtsey of Sakura's punch. Sakura huffed, flipped her hair and as she smiled at her victory.
"These martial artists are tough, but we've fought tougher." She said as she turned to her blue haired friend.
"How are ya, Hinata?" She asked.
"I'm ok, but what about Ranma-kun?" She asked. Sakura lost her smile.
"Oh crap. Come on!" She said as they ran to help the pigtailed boy.
While all of this was going on, Ranma and Happosai were finally getting to the fight that had been a long time coming. Ranma had had enough talking and charged at Happosai and let loose an Amaguriken barrage of punches at the midget master.
Happosai was used to dodging Ranma's attacks, but he was now finding it harder to do. Ranma had improved a lot, and it wasn't just punches that Ranma was throwing at supersonic speed, but kicks too.
"Hoyokusen!" Ranma shouted as ki infused kicks struck Happosai so fast that the old man couldn't dodge.
Happosai was sent skyward by the last kick, which was a high kick to the chin, and Ranma jumped up to grab the old man and slam him down to the ground. But Happosai recovered in time to throw off Ranma's attempt to grab him and struck out with his own punches and kicks. But to Ranma, the old man was going much slower than he used to, or rather, Ranma's training had made him faster than he ever had been.
Ranma struck out with a palm strike of his own and did a spin hook kick that sent the old man flying. As Ranma landed on the ground, he took off after the old perv who flipped back to the ground and charged at Ranma. Ranma parried the old man's strike and blocked his follow up back kick and tried to chop him in the neck.
Happosai blocked the chop and used Ranma's momentum to throw him overhead. Ranma recovered and spun in place, turning himself into a spinning top of continuous punches.
"Kuryu Ken!" Ranma shouted as his continuous strikes caught Happosai off guard and he was unable to block as Ranma rained down blows on the midget master.
Once the rain of punches was over, Ranma did a jump spinning side kick that nailed Happosai in the ribs, sending him flying. Ranma charged after the Anything goes grandmaster and did a flipping axe kick to finish him off. But Happosai managed to roll away from the kick but had to keep moving to avoid the follow up spinning and thrusting kicks that Ranma lashed out at him.
Happosai leapt back into the air, but Ranma charged at him again and they collided fists.
"Hey, just where did you learn those attacks from!?" Happosai asked as Ranma glared at him.
"If you must know, from a REAL master who's leagues above you in every aspect." Ranma said as he twisted Happosai into a throw of his own.
Happosai yelled in surprise as he flipped in the air and had to block Ranma's flying side kick. But as the kick collided with the block, Ranma channeled ki into his leg and spun in the air, creating a small twister.
"Senpu Tatsumaki Geri!" Ranma cried as the twister infused kick pulled Happosai into it and as Ranma spun, Happosai was pulled into kick, after kick after kick.
When the final kick landed, Happosai was sent flying once again. This was NOT how this was supposed to go. He knew Ranma was growing stronger than him, but the boy was supposed to be unable to draw out his full power when not in danger. That was how Happosai was able to keep dealing with Ranma. But NOW look what was going on! New techniques, increased skill in combat, greater speed and power?
Then it hit him. Ranma mentioned that he had been training with a new master. But that last kick. It was familiar to him, it reminded him of one of the few people he actually hated. But that man was long dead. But his student wasn't...
'It couldn't be...' Happosai said as he crashed to the ground and rolled to his stomach.
Ranma landed on the ground, just as Sakura and Hinata finished their fights and stopped to stare in 'aw' of Ranma's power and skill. To them, his moves looked like ones that Guy-sensei and Rock Lee would LOVE to learn. Ranma flipped his pigtail as he huffed at the downed grandmaster.
"Had enough yet?" Ranma asked. Happosai groaned as he got up and glared daggers at his heir.
"Ranma...tell me...this master of yours. Is it Kasshu Domon?" He asked with venom in his voice.
"Kasshu...Domon?" Sakura asked herself.
"Who's that?" Hinata asked. Sakura shrugged.
"Beats me. But it sounds like that perverted midget doesn't like him." She said.
"And what if I said yes?" Ranma asked, not really caring for the freaks answer. Happosai started to glow a dark purple aura as he gathered his ki, not just from his stock piles of lust but his growing rage.
"Ranma..." He said as he got to his feet. "I've taken a lot of insubordination form you, but siding with the current Undefeated of the East!? The sworn enemy of your grandmaster!?"
Ranma started to panic slightly as he saw Happosai started to grow.
"What the!? An enlargement technique!?" Sakura said in shock. Hinata used her Byakugan to look at Happosai and she paled.
"Not just enlargement, but his body almost seems made of pure ki!" She said. Both girls and the pigtailed boy gulped as Happosai became a near Kaiju sized giant.
"If you've sided with the enemy, THEN SUFFER!" Happosai said as he swiped at Ranma.
Ranma 'yiped' and jumped to avoid the strike. Ranma spun in the air and did everything he could to avoid Happosai's strikes. Ranma had never seen the old freak this mad before. He got that the old freak knew Domon-sensei, but what made him snap like this? Sworn enemy? Sheesh, Ranma just couldn't stay out of trouble.
"Ranma!" Sakura shouted as she ran to help her friend.
"SHANARO!" Sakura shouted as she threw a super powered punch at the giant grandmaster. But to her surprise, the giant pervert managed to catch her punch with his giant hand.
"Huh?" Sakura said. Happosai just laughed.
"Very impressive. I haven't felt a punch like that in decades. But it'll do you no good!" He said as he flung Sakura into the air. Sakura screamed as she was sent flying through the air.
"Sakura!" Ranma shouted as he leapt into the air after the pinkette.
In a single leap, Ranma was right beside Sakura and swept her up in his arms. On instinct, Sakura wrapped her arms around Ranma's neck as he flipped back to the ground.
"Are you ok?" Ranma asked Sakura after he landed on the ground. Sakura nodded her head as she looked into Ranma's blue eyes.
"Yeah. I'm ok." She said, a slight blush on her face from how close they were.
"Why you!" Hinata shouted, her the veins around her Byakugan bulging with her rage
Cloaking her hands in Chakra, Hinata charged forward to let loose a barrage of Gentle Fist strikes at the old pervert. But alas, she too was overwhelmed by the old man as he swung his hands and unleashed a blast of gale force winds, sending her flying and screaming.
"Hinata!" Sakura cried.
"Oh crap!" Ranma said as he charged forward and caught Hinata in mid air.
"You ok, Hinata?" He said as he landed next to Sakura.
"H-hai. I'm ok." Hinata said with a smile. Ranma smiled back at her, but then scowled at Happosai.
"What the heck old man!? If you're mad at me, fine! But leave them out of it!" Ranma shouted at the old master. Happosai chuckled at his soon to be former heir.
"Beleive me Ranma, I don't want to attack such exotic beauties. But if they attack me first, then I'll just have to show them, and YOU, why NO ONE messes with Happosai!"
And with that, Happosai spread his hands to his sides and generated two glowing orbs of purple ki.
"But I might go easy on you and forgive you...if you swear to me that you'll never again train under that upstart who calls himself the NEW Undefeated of the East and vow that you'll add whatever he's taught you to the Anything Goes!"
Ranma growled at Happosai and stood between him and the girls. The two girls were shocked to see an aura of pure blue ki coming off him like a raging fire. Ranma glared at the founder of the Anything Goes and narrowed his eyes at the giant perverted pain in his neck.
"No." He said. "Domon-sensei is the only person I've ever met in this hellhole of a town that ACTUALLY ever cared about me and tried to help me! He's the only person who never had any ulterior motives in helping me and has actually treated me like a human being instead of a stupid trophy to be won or a damn toy kids are fighting over! So you can FORGET IT!"
Happosai growled at his now former heir. He hefted his ki orbs over his head and hurled them at Ranma and the girls.
"Then you can just DIE RANMA! I CAN ALWAYS GET ANOTHER HEIR! HAPPO DAIKARIN!"
"RANMA LOOK OUT!" Sakura shouted as she reached for Ranma. Before Hinata could try to use her defensive technique from before, Ranma brought his hands to his side and charged up an orb of yellow ki.
"Mokko Takabisha!" Ranma shouted as he thrust his hands outwards and fired a giant beam of golden-yellow ki at the two purple ki bombs.
Sakura and Hinata starred wide eyed at this latest technique of Ranma's. They were no strangers to incredible techniques of this magnitude, but to see someone use ki instead of chakra to bull this off, and not to use a single hand sign for that matter, it was almost unheard of. As the yellow beam collided with the two Happo fire burst attacks, a huge dust cloud formed, obscuring Ranma from Happosai's sight.
As the dust cleared, Happosai readied himself for whatever Ranma might have next. But to his surprise, a slight red glow appeared from behind the smoke. As the smoke and dust settled, Ranma was seen standing tall, with his right hand glowing a bright red.
"What!?" Happosai said in shock. Ranma glared at the old man as his hand glowed brighter.
"I've had just about enough of you." Ranma said as he clenched his glowing red hand into a fist, causing a crest to appear on the back of it. The crest of the King of Hearts.
"This is the first time I've ever used this move outside of practice. You'll be the first person I ever use it on!" Ranma said as he prepared to use his master's signature technique.
"This hand of mine is burning red! It's loud roar tells me to defeat you and grasp victory! Take this you bastard! My hate! My anger! AND ALL MY SORROW!" Ranma shouted as he charged at Happosai at Mach speed and thrust his glowing red hand at his chest.
"Bakunetsu...Burning...FINGER!"
With that, Ranma thrust his hand at Happosai, who tried to stop Ranma with his own punch. But to Happosai's surprise, Ranma's glowing hand tote right through his giant hand and slammed right into his chest!
"AAAAGGGHHHHH!" Happosai screamed as his battle aura avatar flickered out from the pain of Ranma's attack.
Ranma grit his teeth and poured as much of his power into his hand and gripped Happosai's chest as the old pervert screamed in pain. Ranma poured one last burst of power into his hand to prepare for the finishing blow.
"HEAT...END!" And with that, Ranma let lose a blast from his hand that sent Happosai flying away, screaming as if he were on fire.
Ranma landed on his feet as Happosai crashed and rolled on the ground. As he came to a stop, he looked to his chest, which was covered with a nasty looking fifth degree burn. Ranma glared at the beaten old man.
"Consider yourself lucky. If I wasn't such a nice person, I would have killed you with that last move." Ranma said as he flicked his pigtail over his shoulder.
Sakura and Hinata gaped at what they just saw. That move reminded Sakura of the Rasengan move she'd seen Master Jiraiya use before and the Raikiri that Kakashi used. But instead of a spiraling ball of energy or a condensed palm of lightning, Ranma's attack was nothing but pure red, almost white hot ki infused hand.
Happosai growled as he struggled to get to his feet, only to fall back from the intense pain in his chest. Ranma huffed at the midget as he turned to look at the two stunned girls.
"Are you guys alright?" Ranma asked, all the anger from before gone.
"That...was...AWESOME!" Sakura exclaimed. "What was that? I've never seen a move like that before!"
Ranma chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.
"That was the Burning Finger, my master's signature move. Honestly, I only just learned it last week. I've never used it in a fight until just now." He said.
"W-wow. That was...truly amazing Ranma-kun." Hinata said.
"Ranma!" Happosai shouted at Ranma. All three teens turned to look at the beaten old man as he struggled to hold himself up.
"I'll...admit...I'm impressed...but...ugh...how could you turn your back on me? On the Anything Goes itself? Why turn to that bastard student of my mortal enemy!?" Happosai exclaimed as he tried to march over to Ranma only to stumble over himself. Ranma glared at the fallen master.
"Well for one thing, Domon-sensei isn't a creep like you who's only in it for himself. A man like you has no right to call himself a martial artist or a martial arts master. I'm done with YOUR Anything Goes. And that's final." Ranma said as he turned his back on Happosai.
"Oh yeah?" The old master called back. "Well if you walk on me now, then I'll have no choice but to excommunicate you from the school entirely!"
"Fine by me." Ranma said without a care.
"Oh yeah? Well what will your mother think?"
That comment stopped Ranma in his tracks, his blood turning to ice.
"Heh heh. My guess is that she'll think it pretty 'unmanly' on you to attack your grandmaster and walk out on him! And we both know what your traditional samurai mother will do if she thinks you've done something unmanly! You'll be committing seppuku by the time you get home!"
"WHAT!?" Both Sakura and Hinata cried out in shock.
"Ranma! What the heck's this old pervert talking about?" Sakura asked the pigtailed boy. Ranma bowed his head and sighed.
"It's a long story. But, the short version is, a long time ago, my pop made a promise to my mother to turn me into a man amongst men. And if I failed to meet her expectations...(Gulp) I'd have to commit seppuku to atone my dishonor." He said, causing the two girls to pale in fear and shock. Their mission may be to eliminate Ranma if he were a threat, but to have him kill himself just for helping them out and standing up to this midget of a pervert? No sane mother would make her child go through with that...right?
"But-but she wouldn't..." Hinata trailed off, not believing what she was hearing. Ranma sighed.
"Believe me, she would." He said. Then he turned to the struggling old man behind him.
"Happosai..." He trailed off. Happosai grinned, thinking that he had cowled Ranma's spirit.
"...Drop dead and go to Hell." He said, making the old man gasp.
"If dying simply because I'm fed up with your antics is what my mother thinks is unmanly, then she doesn't know what a real man amongst men is." He said as he walked off. Before he got too far, he turned to the girls and gave them what he thought might be his last smile.
"Thanks for helping me out just now." He said, genuine joy in his voice. "But...(Sigh) I guess this is goodbye." And with that, he vanished in a blur.
Not too long afterwards, Ranma was in front of the Tendo Dojo. He gulped and put on the sternest face he could as he marched in for what might be the final time. He wasn't even surprised to see Genma, Soun, Akane, Nabiki and his mother waiting for him at the door. His only question was how could they had gotten the information about what happened before he got there? One look at Nabiki's phone gave him the answer.
'Of course.' He thought to himself. 'Leave it to Nabiki to give the old goat a phone so she could get more crap to sell or info to use to blackmail. Honestly, at this point, it doesn't surprise me.'
"Ranma! How could you!" Soun balled out. "Beating the master I'm okay with, but cheating on your fiancé again!? And with two new girls!?"
"And what's this about you wanting to leave the Anything Goes to train with some other master!? Have you finally lost your mind!?" Genma added in. Before he answered, Ranma punched both of them in the nose.
"First off, get your facts straight. And two, no. I haven't lost my mind. I've fianlly found it as well as a dang backbone." Ranma said, anger in his voice and his eyes like blue fire.
"Son..." Nodoka started before Akane butted in.
"SO! Who are your two new sluts, HUH!? Did they put out already!? What's your excuse this tim..." Akane soon fell to the floor due to Ranma chopping her in the neck, her world instantly going black.
"I should have done that a long time ago." He said.
"Listen up!" He said, so authoritivly that everyone, even Nabiki, was shocked into silence.
"First off, yes I've left the Anything Goes to follow a different master's teachings. And yes, I've sided with the new undefeated of the east,, Kasshu Domon."
"WHAT!?" Genma and Soun cried out. Nabiki raised an eyebrow.
"Kasshu Domon?" The name was new to her.
"And second, I don't know what the old pervert told you, but I fought him to protect two girls I just met from his molesting. And if you guys honestly think I deserve to be punished for that then GO AHEAD! I'm sick and tired of you WIMPS siding with that freak simply because you're scared of him!"
With that, Ranma turned to his mother.
"Mom, sometimes I can't tell just what you think is manly or not. I don't know what you think the old freak said about me, but just know, I only acted the way I think is honorable. But if you think what I've done isn't manly..." Ranma got down on his knees and braced himself.
"Then give me the sword. I'll commit seppuku." He said. Nodoka was shocked and was about to say something when...
"STOP!" Came two voices shouting at the top of their lungs.
Nodoka, Ranma and the others turned their heads and were shocked to see two women panting for breath as they ran up to the front door. It was Sakura and Hinata.
"Please...huff huff...let us explaine..." Sakura said in between breaths.
"Who are you two?" Nodoka asked.
"We...huff...we're the ones Ranma-kun helped." Hinata answered as she regained her breath.
"Oh...So it's you two..." Akane said as she struggled to get back up, the pain in the side of her neck making it harder than she thought.
"Look," Sakura started as she got on her hands and knees.
"I don't really know what this whole seppuku thing between you and your son is about but..."
"Ranma-kun isn't unmanly!" Hinata cut her off.
"Ranma-kun was just walking me back to the clinic where me and Sakura-san work when we saw her chasing after that small perverted man. Ranma-kun helped her stop him and then some other people showed up and attacked us and Ranma-kun helped us fight them off. So you see, he's not unmanly! He's one of the nicest people I've met. He didn't even know us and yet he went out of his way to help us."
"Especially when that pervert grew massive and tried to crush us to death." Sakura added in.
"A likely story." Akane said as she sat up.
"It's the truth." Sakura said as she bowed to Nodoka.
"So please, don't make him kill himself." She begged as Hinata bowed as well.
"...I wasn't going to." Nodoka said. Ranma whipped his head around to her as Sakura, Hinata and everyone else did the same.
"Wait...what?" Ranma said in genuine shock. Nodoka smiled at her son.
"Ranma, I had a feeling Happosai was trying to blow things out of proportions. And to be honest, how can I possibly think of you as unmanly when two beauties such as these come all the way here just to protect you from committing seppuku." She said, glancing at the two girls. Sakura and Hinata blushed at the older woman's words.
"HEY!" Akane screamed out in rage as she nursed her now bruised neck. "How can you believe these two and that PERVERT when you know he's got all kinds of sluts clawing to get his attention all the time!"
"You shut up." Nodoka said to the angry tomboy. "I admit, at one point I was more than happy to have you as a daughter-in-law, but after the past year, I can finally see why my son calls you 'uncute'."
"Mrs. Saotome..." Soun tried to speak up, only to be silenced by Nodoka's glare.
"Shut up you spinless jellyfish." She said. "The very fact that you'd side with your therapy needing daughter over a boy who would risk his life against the very person your so afraid of speaks volumes of how much I misjudged this stupid arranged marraige between our two familys."
"No-chan, be reasonable." Genma tried to say.
"SHUT IT!" Nodoka shouted, scaring the bald man into silence.
"The biggest mistakes I've ever made in my life were the day I married you and the day I let you take MY son away from me. As of right now, this FARCE of an arranged marriage between my son and any daughter of this spineless bastard is OVER!" She shouted loud enough for even the dead to hear.
"Alright mom!" Ranma exclaimed, getting back to his feet.
"I didn't see this coming." Nabiki said. Nodoka glared at her.
"Really? None of your little spies told you about this, little miss blackmailer?" She said, gripping her sword tightly. Nabiki gulped.
"As I was saying," Nodoka said as she took a breath. "Ranma, pack your bags. We're leaving."
"Halleluiah! I've been waiting to leave since I got here!" Ranma said, practically jumping inside the house.
"Now see here woman!" Genam started to say, only to be kicked in the balls from behind by Ranma.
"Don't talk to my mother that way you prick!" Ranma said. Before he could do anything else, Sakura put a hand on his shoulder.
"Please, allow me." She said as she picked up the fat man and spun him around several times before throwing him all the way across town. Everyone watched in shock as the seemingly petit girl threw Genma away like it was nothing.
"Dang." Ranma said. "You are one heck of a strong woman, Sakura."
Sakura blushed and gave a thumbs up at Ranma.
"Don't let my cute looks fool ya." She said.
"Big deal!" Akane said in a rage. "So she's strong, I bet all she's good for a is cheap blow..."
"SHUT UP BITCH!"
Akane never finished what she was about to say, for Sakura nailed her with a punch so strong that the Tendo girl's ancestors felt the blow. As everyone watched Sakura send Akane flying like a ragdoll, Ranma...
"BAHAHAHAHAHA!" Burst out laughing.
A little while later, Ranma and his mother were walking away from the Tendo home and were heading for a hotel in town. As they walked, Ranma was talking to Sakura and Hinata, curious about the techniques they used during the fight with Happosai and the fiancés.
"So, what was that style you used Hinata? It looked like Bagua but different." Ranma asked the busty, shy girl. Hinata blushed, trying to find the right words to describe her style to Ranma without exposing too much.
"Well...it's a family style. It was modified over many generations so I can't tell you much." She said. Ranma nodded in understanding.
"I see. Well still, it's an awesome style. Do you think you could teach me a little of it?" He asked with a hopeful smile.
"Uh...I'm sorry, Ranma-kun. But, I'm not allowed to teach outside of the family." She said. Ranma sighed.
"Bummer. Oh well, I'm disappointed but I understand." He said before looking to Sakura.
"By the way Sakura, what the heck kind of training did you do to get so strong?"
Sakura puffed out her chest in pride.
"My master taught me a way to channel ninjutsu chakra into pure strength. Doing so allows me to push my strength to inhuman limits." She said. Ranma whistled.
"Dang. Now I want to meet this master of yours." He said. Sakura smiled at the boy who was starting to see her as a friend. She made a mental note to tell Tsunade that it was starting to look like Ranma himself wasn't the threat that the government thought he was, but all the other people that surrounded him in Nerima.
"Well, I guess I'll see you guys later?" He said as they arrived at the clinic. Sakura and Hinata smiled and bowed.
"Yeah, see ya around Ranma." Sakura said as she headed inside.
"Good bye Ranma-kun, Nodoka-san." Hinata said as she did the same. Ranma smiled at the two girls as they vanished from sight.
"Soooo...Which of those two girls are my future daughter-in-law?" Nodoka asked with a sly grin.
"ACK!? MOM!"